Mike Smith, Author at Art Scene in Wales

Thespians, Mischief, New Theatre, Cardiff

*** Thespians is Mischief’s first musical, and the company that gave us The Play That Goes Wrong turns up with...

Don Carlo, Grange Park Opera, West Horsley Place Verdi’s Don Carlo is one of opera’s great political dramas, but it...

Communities of Butetown and Grangetown in Cardiff come together with Music Theatre Wales and Fio to create brand new Community...

Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show continues its incredible journey across the UK in 2026, bringing its unique blend of glam,...

*** There’s always a danger, when adapting something as taut and psychologically airless as The Spy Who Came in from...

Throughout April and May, dance company Jones the Dance will take up a week’s residency in three of Wales’s major...

Hijinx has announced details of the Unity Festival 2026, set to take place from 30 June to 5 July this...

The Arts Council of Wales has struck again. This time the bureaucrats have refused funding for Big Splash, the largest...

*** Welsh National Opera’s latest staging of The Flying Dutchman continues a now-familiar operatic vogue: the displacement of the titular...

Cash-strapped Welsh National Opera has announced its 80th anniversary season with just one full opera, a double bill, a chamber-scale...